Quotes About Serenity

I like to do yoga because it centers me and makes me realize truly what's important.

When I am practicing yoga, I try to avoid music. But if I really have to listen to something, I listen to the Om chant.

I think perfect happiness has a lot to do with peace. For me, I get peace from writing, from the people in my life, and from yoga - om!

Your outlook is pretty happy and positive after yoga. It's a good way to open up and center.

Do I do yoga? Yeah.

In yoga, it really is about being grounded.

Yoga, for me, is finding my inner peace.

Meditation is important - yoga, walking.

I started to do yoga. It helps for the body to be more flexible but also for the mind - it calms me down a lot, so I really like to do that.

When I do yoga, I feel like I'm kind of coming home to myself.

I crave time in Yosemite like I crave food and water.

A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Whenever I traveled abroad and went into these old cathedrals and churches, I would feel so peaceful.

Travelling helps me rejuvenate and de-stress.

You put me on a treadmill, and I will run away, but you take me out on a beach, and I can run for an hour.

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

Being on your own in a gallery is the biggest treat, as long as the lights are switched on.

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

The olive tree is a tree full of health. It is a symbol of eternity. Of all things, it has peace attached to it.